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ALPINE ACCENTOR. 
Accentor. — Generic characters. — Bill strong, 
depressed at the base ; wings with the first 
quill very short, third longest ; wing altoge- 
ther rather short ; legs and feet strong. A. 
modularis. 
Note. — Europe, India. 
The Alpine Accentor, Accentor alpinus, 
Bechst. — Accentor alpinus , JBechst. — La Fauvette 
des Alpes, Buff. — Collared Stare , and Alpine 
Warbler, iMtham. — Alpine Accentor of British 
authors. — The Alpine Accentor lays claim to rank 
in the British Fauna, from the occurrence of a 
single specimen shot in the garden of King’s 
College, Cambridge, and now forming part of the 
collection of the Rev. Dr Thackery. The alps of 
Middle Europe are its natural and most frequent 
station ; but its geographical range in either 
direction does not seem to be ascertained, or at 
least is not mentioned by our modern writers on 
European ornithology. So far as we at present * 
know, it is local, or spreads over a very limited 
space of country. Its occurrence in Britain can 
be only looked on as a specimen driven somehow 
from its course. During the summer months, it 
keeps to the higher parts of the mountains, where 
it breeds in the clefts of the rock ; but like its 
British congener, it also seems to be fond of 
society, for it frequents the vicinity of cottages 
built at a high elevation, and breeds about or 
very near them. During winter it descends 
